[toss1]

^ ^ ^ THIS! ^ ^ ^

The one thing a tolerant society can NOT tolerate is intolerance itself. If allowed to set root, intolerance will take over and destroy the tolerant society. The intolerant will be loud and aggressive, working to silence everyone else. Eventually, it's over.

Just like the fact that people who want to live self-determining lives in a self-governing democracy must be always better armed and prepared than the bullies and autocrats who want to freely plunder and run other lives & societies. If they are not better armed & prepared (either personally or by proxy of police, military, etc.), then the bullies & autocrats will inevitably take over by force at any opportune time.

(See also in economics: The bad money drives out the good, every time.)

[kbelder]

That, plus the ability to define intolerance, gives authoritarian control.

[toss1]

Nice glib content-free answer.

So, you just give up?

With any good faith effort, intolerance is pretty easy to define.

But, if you are talking in bad faith, there's 1000 arguments.

All authority is not authoritarian. That is why democracy was invented. In order to provide a self-correcting system. But yes, Churchill was right when he said that "Democracy is the worst of all forms of government, except for all others that have been tried."

Total free-for-all has repeatedly been shown to rapidly devolve in every case. Can you show a single un-moderated forum that survives over time, or a single unregulated "free" society without authority that does not fail?

So, can you show one of these no-authority forums or societies, or do you have a better suggestion than to just give up?